Saturday, 26 January 2013

Reviving my Darlings

I'm about 10% of the way through my fourth draft and I think it's working. I've rewritten most of the dialogue and I think it sounds more 'real'. And now that I'm using close third I can use two POVs. This should make the narrative more interesting/varied but it also means I can restore some scenes I really liked but had to cut when it was in the first person. It also means the MS will be longer, but you can't have everything. All being well, I'm hoping to get it finished by Easter.

2 comments:

Thanks Karen. I don't think I'm going to make my Easter deadline now as work and family commitments have been taking over for the past two weeks. Also R had a terrible cough at night for a week and I've been feeling shattered in the evenings which is when I usually write. On the plus side I've been coming up with lots of ideas of how to establish and develop the characters which should make the story a lot richer. I'm going to get editing this weekend and see if I can work these ideas into my fourth draft.

About Me

Born
and raised on a windswept Yorkshire moor, I spent much of my
childhood either reading about adventures or writing my own. 15 years ago, I took my first steps into writing commercially as a newspaper reporter and have worked in editorial roles ever since. For the last five years I've been cracking on with my fiction writing and last year completed my first novel, a middle-grade (9-12) fantasy fiction story. I'm now working on a new middle-grade fantasy adventure while sending out the first MS to agents. When not writing I love being with my family, getting active
outdoors and reading just about anything I can get my hands on.